

Pretty much everything you can do here in terms of adjusting the color. To optimize the color you should grab something that is white or gray to optimize the color but you could actually grab something that is not to dramatically change the color. Even use the Eye Dropper tool here to grab. You can even drastically change the colors that are in it. There is a lot you can do in here to change the photo. Some of these may actually be easier to use depending on your experience with photography or with the actual condition of the photo. You know, adjust the levels very specifically.
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You can adjust it using a lot of these more pro level tools here. Now the Adjust tab here brings you in closer contact to the actual colors in the photo. So you can do lots of combinations of these to create the special effects for the photo.


Maybe do a little bit more of a boost and then add an edge blur. So I can do Fade 8 and I can actually reverse that all the way down to zero. It will even give you a number underneath. You can also, you know, click these multiple times. They can actually change the photo in a more dramatic way. Then these are more obvious of what they do. If I want to darken this photo I click on this once but I can also keep clicking and it gets darker, and darker, and darker. We have a variety of different effects and you can kind of just click on them and click on them multiple times to enhance these effects. You know maybe if this photo was shrunk down and used on the web you wouldn't even notice that the area is a little blurry there. That is a little blurry but if I play with it a little bit I find I can create some pretty decent effects here from the way I stroke the area to get rid of it. I've got this rock right here in the middle of the water. It will basically take samples of the items around it.įor instance, this is a really good example. But the Retouch tool, you can change the size of it and you can see the size here is that circle, you can use to retouch things in the photo. This isn't a tool like PhotoShop or something where we can play with the pixels in the photo. There is the Retouch button which is the only real editing, perhaps beside red-eye, that you can do here. All sorts of different constraints there. So if you wanted to make it sure it was a 4 x 3 or a 3 x 4 we can do that. We can also constrain the photo to a certain screen ratio. So in this case it draws a box around the whole photo and we can bring this box in and move its edges and sides. That might be more important in some photos than others. There is no real problem here but you can see, for instance, the coast line here isn't perfectly straight with the photo and if for some reason that bothered us we could adjust it and actually you can see we have it straight there now. We also have the Straighten tool which basically allows you to straighten it up. So if there was a person in this photo we can use the Fix Red-Eye which would allow us then to use this target here and click on red-eye in the photo and then it will automatically fix that. Revert to Original undoes all the steps of all the different things you have done because you can keep adding more things. Now anytime you do any of these you can use the Revert to Original button here at the bottom or the Undo button. Especially if the photo is a little too dark or too bright or something is just not ideal about how you took the photo. It is not always true that it makes it better but a lot of times you can just hit that button and make a photo look good. What it does is it automatically looks at the photo's colors and tries to basically make it look a little bit better based on whatever the computer finds. So the simplest, most basic thing that you can do is to press this Enhance button. We go into the iPhoto editor where we have three different tabs of things that we can do.

Then I'm going to hit the Edit button at the bottom right. Really adjusting it not as much as editing it. We're going to take a look at editing a photo. Let me show you the basic of editing photos in iPhoto. Check out Editing Photos In iPhoto at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
